As the cold weather hits, I start to think about autumn food, and tweak my go-to dishes accordingly.
A Eulogy
It's quiet. Too quiet. There's a sonic hole in the house, and I'm straining to fill it and I know I can't.
If I Had A Pound: DocoBanksy Goes West
It’s been an interesting few weeks for the international art-seditionist DocoBanksy. Continue reading If I Had A Pound: DocoBanksy Goes West
Justice At Last: X&HT Saw Dredd
The big problem with adapting any popular comic book hero for the big screen is the huge amount of history that needs to be addressed–or at least acknowledged. Continue reading Justice At Last: X&HT Saw Dredd
News Bulletin
On my hols this week, so bloggery will be minimal. Howevs, I do have a couple of late-breaking news items. Continue reading News Bulletin
Livin’ La Vida Loca: X&HT Saw The Imposter
If you tried selling the story of The Imposter as a drama, people would never go for it.
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The Grandstand Option: X&HT At The Paralympics
Readership. I have a dream. A dream in which we all come together, regardless of age, race, creed or ability, and celebrate the enduring tenacity of the human spirit. I came a little closer to that dream yesterday, and I can only hope that we all realise that we are on the brink of a whole new relationship with sport.
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Original Pirate Material: DocoBanksy at the Portobello Film Festival
“What do you mean, I have to introduce the film?”
Here we are, in my front room. DocoBanksy, calmly sipping on a cup of my finest espresso. Next to him, Lady Dem, his soulmate, muse and sounding board. She looks at me sympathetically, but she knows the score as well as I. What Doco wants, Doco gets. It turns out Doco doesn’t want to introduce his own damn film at the opening night of the Portobello Film Festival. Which can only mean one thing.
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Learn To Love Again: The Foo Fighters and The Reading Festival 2012
It’s the end of the 2012 Reading Festival. Past midnight, after an epic 2-and-a-half hour show by the Foo Fighters that was one of the finest gigs I had ever seen. We (for the purposes of clarity, we are TLC, DocoDom, new chum Groovy Geoff and yr. humble author) are backstage, sipping cocktails and hanging with the band.
An old Talking Heads song passes unbidden through my head as Geoff jumps up to get a picture with Dave Grohl and Ricky from the Kaiser Chiefs. I ask myself; well, how did I get here?
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Reading The Signs At The Reading Festival
The August Bank Holiday weekend offers up an almost unrivalled set of distractions and attractions for the discerning punter, and always presents yr. humble writer with something of a dilemma. London offers both the UK’s biggest free festival, the Notting Hill Carnival, and the country’s largest gathering of horror fans, Frightfest (more on this from our embedded correspondents on the ground, fear fans).
And then there’s the Reading and Leeds Festival, the climax of the music, mud and over-priced lager season. For the first time in three years, X&HT will be on site.
EXCUSES AND HALF TRUTHS 